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Economic Instruction

Teaching quantitative macroeconomics to undergraduate students using the Solow model: An application to post–WWII Japan

Seth NeumullerEconomics Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 349-363 | Published online: 03 Jun 2023

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